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Solarflare Leverages FPGAs for ApplicationOnload Engine
Solarflare Communications has announced its ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE) – combining 10gE networking with FPGA technology that allows trading applications to run fully on a network card, for the lowest latency. Planned to ship in Q2, AOE is Solarflare’s response to wide customer demand, says CEO Russell Stern. Already well established in financial markets firms with…
Vendor Consortium Pushes Reference Stack for High Performance Trading; Publishes Benchmarks for FIX Messaging
Following on from an announcement at the end of last year, a consortium of IT vendors has published a white paper outlining a reference stack for high performance trading applications, and has documented a set of benchmarks conducted on commercial and open source FIX engines to demonstrate different performance characteristics of the stack. As it…
Brennan’s Back – To Head Elektron Platform
Brennan Carley is back at Reuters, albeit it’s now Thomson Reuters and no doubt it has changed a bit since he was last there in a strategy role, around 1999/2000. His new job is as global head of the Elektron platform, the company’s low-latency managed hosting/co-location business. Since his first stint at the company, Carley…
Rainier Investment Management Selects Charles River as Data Source
Rainier Investment Management is delivering improved and more timely data to its portfolio managers and traders as a result of switching its data source from an incumbent supplier to the Charles River data service and upgrading its implementation of the Charles River investment management solution (IMS). The employee owned, Seattle-based investment bank went live with…
Bloomberg Ups the Open Ante
For those of you who have viewed Bloomberg’s moves towards openness to date with a sceptical eye, today’s announcement that it is making its Bloomberg API available to all – free of cost or restrictions – may force a rethink. Making the API – known among friends as BLPAPI – available to potentially competitive market…
Demand for Data Management Driven by Risk and Regulation
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, has secured 19 new global clients in 2011. These firms benefit from cleansed, validated and centralised data to feed into their risk, trading and compliance platforms. New notable clients include Prudential, ING, Loomis Sayles, Robeco, SCOR Global Investments and Indexium. “2012 will be the year of data overload for financial…
Q&A: Brand Hunt of 60East on Awesome Code and Fast Messaging
When one thinks of low-latency messaging, it’s companies like Tibco, Informatica, Solace that come to mind. But also in the mix is the stealthy 60East Technologies, about to release its latest version. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the scoop from co-founder Brand Hunt. Q: So when and how did 60East Technologies get started, where is it today, and…
Bloomberg Opens Up Market Data Interfaces
As anticipated, Bloomberg is opening up the interface via which it provides market data to other market data and application vendors, on a free-use basis. It’s part of the vendor’s Open Market Data Initiative, which also extends to market data symbology, as previously announced. The interface in play is BLPAPI, which is already widely used…
Torstone Tackles Post-Trade Processing, Risk and Reference Data with Inferno
Torstone Technology has launched a new post-trade processing platform, using the software-as-a-service model. Torstone’s Inferno system aims to reduce middle and back-office costs while improving risk and reference data management with a solution tried and tested at Belgian banking group KBC. The software behind Inferno was originally developed and is used by KBC Group, and…
Rainier Investment Management Live on Charles River Data Service
Charles River Development (Charles River), a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that Rainier Investment Management (Rainier), an employee-owned investment firm with headquarters in Seattle, is live on the Charles River Data Service for reference data and real-time equity and fixed income market data. Rainier’s portfolio managers and traders receive data that…